Umeå Energi

Umeå Energi is a municipally owned energy and communications company based in Umeå, Sweden. The group produces and distributes electricity, operates the regional electricity grid and trades power, and supplies district heating and district cooling that cover a large majority of the built area in Umeå. Its main heat production assets are combined heat and power plants at Dåva, which use household and industrial waste, logging residues and other biofuels, with Ålidhem used primarily for peak loads. The company also operates a hydroelectric plant, a wind farm and facilities that recover energy from sewage. Through its subsidiary Umeå Energi UmeNet, it builds, operates and leases an open broadband and telecommunications network, making the company a key provider of both energy and high-speed communications in the municipality. Umeå Energi serves roughly 62,000 grid customers via a medium- and low-voltage network of about 4,500 km and has around 400 employees. The company is certified to ISO 14001 and has an occupational health and safety management system, and has reported low specific emissions from its district heating. It invests heavily in smart grid and power quality technologies, including extensive deployment of monitoring instruments and digital fault-detection systems to improve reliability, reduce losses and shorten outages. Strategically, Umeå Energi participates in regional cleantech and innovation programmes and co-owns the Modity Energy Trading platform to strengthen its energy trading capabilities. Together with Liquid Wind it is developing an electrofuel plant integrated with the Dåva cogeneration site to capture biogenic CO₂ and produce up to 100,000 tonnes per year of eMethanol for shipping, contributing to Umeå’s climate-neutrality goals.